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icon6.gif Talkin' 'Bout Bogs and Crappers ....  [message #28535] Wed, 22 February 2006 20:26 Go to next message
grasshopper is currently offline  grasshopper

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and where words come from..........

Tell me what these words mean and trust me, I'm only making fun of myself Very Happy

*farn
*dootcher
*impatikler
*Jawjuh
*Norlins
*meerfuraminit
*tarred
*ferme
*ninnyhammer
*churchyard cough



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Re: Talkin' 'Bout Bogs and Crappers ....  [message #28537 is a reply to message #28535] Wed, 22 February 2006 20:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nigel is currently offline  Nigel

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Churchyard cough is what I know of as a graveyard cough - the cough of a person who sounds as if he terminally ill from lung disease.
I haven't met the other terms before.

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Re: Talkin' 'Bout Bogs and Crappers ....  [message #28539 is a reply to message #28535] Wed, 22 February 2006 20:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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Some random guesses:

>*farn

farm? foreign?

>*dootcher

something her. Teach her?

>*impatikler

In particular

>*Jawjuh

Georgia

>*Norlins

New Orleans. Sounds like a holiday camp, though (Butlins)

>*meerfuraminit

Come here for a minute

>*tarred

Black sticky stuff you put on roads

>*ferme

French for "farm". Or "for me"?

>*ninnyhammer

No idea. Sounds googleable, though. Ah, yes -- "simpleton"

>*churchyard cough

A smoker's cough?
Accents  [message #28574 is a reply to message #28539] Thu, 23 February 2006 19:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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Jamie, I'm still intrigued by the meanings of the following words! Smile

- farn (is that "foreign"?)
- dootcher (no idea)
- tarred (no idea)
- ferme (no idea, unless it's "for me")

I always like to think I pronounce words how they're written. Even so, there's something distinctly cut-glass about my accent (it may be what Americans expect the English to sound like, but honestly, most English people sound nothing like me). In modern Britain it's becoming better to have a generic "estuary-English" accent, or a regional accent. (Light Scottish accents are best of all, apparently.) People make fun of you otherwise.

Anyone else have a particularly interesting accent? Cossie, do you have a Scottish accent?
Re: Accents  [message #28594 is a reply to message #28574] Thu, 23 February 2006 23:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have this southern drawl that just gets so much worse when I'm around my Alabama cousins....reeeeeeal slow kinda working its way to nothing at the end.

Examples of the words:
England is a farn country. (foreign)
I'm busy, dootcher yourself. (do it)
I worked hard all day and I'm flat out tarred. (tired)
Would you hold this Dr. Pepper ferme? (for me)

And personally speaking, there's nothing more WHOAAA!! than a killer British accent Very Happy

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Re: Accents  [message #28597 is a reply to message #28594] Thu, 23 February 2006 23:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Brian1407a is currently offline  Brian1407a

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I live in the south but I dont have an accent.....they do



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Re: Accents  [message #28599 is a reply to message #28574] Thu, 23 February 2006 23:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Tarred = tired ,,,,,,,,, i think



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: Talkin' 'Bout Bogs and Crappers ....  [message #28600 is a reply to message #28535] Thu, 23 February 2006 23:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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grasshopper wrote:
> and where words come from..........
>
> Tell me what these words mean and trust me, I'm only making fun of myself Very Happy
>
farn = Foreign
dootcher =
impatikler = In Particular
Jawjuh = Georgia
Norlins = New Orleans
meerfuraminit = Come here for a minute
tarred = Tired
ferme = For Me
ninnyhammer =
churchyard cough



Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Dulcet Scottish Tones ...  [message #28606 is a reply to message #28574] Fri, 24 February 2006 02:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cossie is currently offline  cossie

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... are available only to the select few!

Actually, although I originally had a lowland Scots accent, I have lived South of the Border so long that it's all but disappeared - though it re-appears whenever I visit Scotland or I drink too much! I can do a fair impression of the Tyneside accent (Why ye buggor, hinny!) but my normal speaking voice is pretty neutral, though with short Northern vowels. I would take a bath after rolling in the grass, whilst Deeej would take a baarth after rolling in the graahs!

I once worked with a guy who had made the local accents of County Durham his lifetime passion. His skill was uncanny; after a minute's conversation he could pinpoint where someone came from to within two or three miles. He told me it was all done by key words. The use and pronunciation of various words can be mapped pretty accurately, and the map for each word is different, so you can come up with a location by applying a little basic set theory.

As an example, most vowels, when followed by two consonants, are short in most Northern accents - so that 'faster' will be pronounced with a short 'a' as in 'cap', but in Southern England it would be pronounced with a long 'a' as in 'start'. However, in Cumbria, North-East England and Yorkshire, the words 'master' and 'plaster' are pronounced with a long 'a'; whilst in Lancashire (and especially in the Fylde area) they are pronounced with a short 'a'. So if someone speaks with a fairly neutral accent, but with short vowels, he's from the North. Get him to use 'master' or 'plaster' in conversation and, if the 'a' is still short, you have a Lancastrian. Why anyone should actually WANT to have a Lancastrian is difficult to imagine - but then again, 'Queer as Folk' was sent in Manchester!



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It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
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Don't worry about a churchyard cough ...  [message #28607 is a reply to message #28600] Fri, 24 February 2006 02:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cossie is currently offline  cossie

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... just remember that it isn't the cough that carries you off, its the coffin they carry you off in!

Of course, that'll be meaningless to the rebellious colonials, 'cos they insist upon calling coffins caskets - whereas WE know that caskets are little boxes in which to keep valuables!



For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
Re: Don't worry about a churchyard cough ...  [message #28608 is a reply to message #28607] Fri, 24 February 2006 02:39 Go to previous message
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I beg to differ, caskets are what your burried in, you keep valuables in a safe. Razz



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